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    Updating feeds and Downloading Podcasts</h3>
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    BeyondPod keeps a local (cached) copy of each subscribed feed, so you can view the 
    feed content even if you are offline. To get the latest feed content, you
    have to tell BeyondPod to update (synchronize) a particular feed or feeds. 
    Sometimes updates can potentially take a very long time and consume large amount 
    of bandwidth and battery. BeyondPod provides a complete control over
    what feeds get updated. Using the various choices available under <strong>Menu &gt;
      Update and Download</strong>, you can update only one feed, all feeds in the 
    current category, all feeds 
    or just feeds that failed to update last time.</p>
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    There are 2 ways to download podcasts for a given feed:</p>
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  <li>To download a single podcast just click on the <em>Download</em> link that is displayed
    next to every podcast in the feed&#8217;s content. (In some older windows mobile
    devices that approach does not work, due to a bug in Internet Explorer)</li>
  <li>If you want to regularly download new podcasts, you can
    to configure the feed to automatically download new podcasts during its update.
    To configure automatic downloads select the feed, then <strong>Menu &gt; Manage Feeds
      &gt; Edit Feed.</strong> Scroll down, check <em>Download Podcasts</em> checkbox
    and enter a number of podcasts to download. Next time you run a feed update it 
    will automatically download the selected number of new podcasts for that feed.</li>
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&nbsp;Keep in mind that if you invoke a feed update from the <i>Content View</i> 
  (web browser), it will do a quick (feed only) update, and will not download any 
  available podcasts. If&nbsp; you start the update from the <i>Feeds View</i> (<b>Menu 
  &gt; Update</b>) it will both update the feed and download any new podcasts.</p>
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    You can also schedule updates to start regularly at a given time using the <a
      href="SheduleUpdates.htm">Update Scheduler>
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